Portland's Best Fried Chicken Spots

Fried chicken is a Portland staple. Portland Monthly’s Alex Frane visited the City Cast Portland podcast with his picks for the best, in a bunch of different categories:

🍗 The Best Straight-Up Fried Chicken

You'll find a wide variety of excellent fried chicken:

Reel M Inn

Prepare for a long wait at this dive bar. But it is definitely worth it.

Hat Yai

This spot introduced Portland to Thai-style fried chicken. Tip: You can order it with roti bread and other fixings for the full experience.

FOMO Chicken

This one's a food cart that serves Korean fried chicken (to those in the know, KFC). They also have American-style, if you're looking for something less spicy.

🥪 The Best Chicken Sandwich

The best in this category include a fluffy bun, sauce, and crunchy vegetables (slaw, maybe), Frane says:

Jojo

It's a crowd favorite.

Basilisk

Their menu includes a Nashville-style hot chicken. And their sandwiches are big enough to split.

Frybaby

This is the Korean option among these recommended sandwich spots.

🐔 Best Chicken Wings

Maybe you're not into fried chicken, but will make an exception when the dish arrives as wings. Here are your best bets:

Alberta Street Market

This corner market serves some excellent chicken wings (with jojos).

Tinker Tavern

It's a Buffalo Bills bar, so naturally it serves Buffalo wings. (Side note: It's also possibly the city's one Star Trek-themed bar.)

Chimcking

This is a South Korea-based chain with a few locations in the area. They serve boneless wings, which is sort of not a wing, but they are tasty enough to break the rules of this category, and earn a mention.

Mosaic Taphouse

Pok Pok (may it rest in peace) was once the classic Portland restaurant whose specialty was fish-sauce-flavored wings. That dish is still available at this St. Johns bar.

🗞️ Read up on more tasty ideas:

• A Crispy, Crackly Guide to Portland’s Best Fried Chicken [Portland Monthly]
• Winged Victory: Portland’s Top Chicken Wings [Portland Monthly]